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Proclamation 2807—Determining the Drug Keto-Bemidone to Be An Opiate

September 04, 1948


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas section 3228(f) of the Internal Revenue Code provides in part as follows:

(f) OPIATE. The word "opiate" as used in this part and subchapter A of chapter 23 shall mean any drug (as defined in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act) found by the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, to have an addition-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary.;

And Whereas the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, has found the drug Keto-bemidone [4-(3-hydroxy-phenyl)-1-methyl-4-piperidyl ethyl ketone hydrochloride] to have an addition-forming and addition-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately:

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found the drug Keto-bemidone [4-3-hydroxy-phenyl)-1-methyl-4-piperidyl ethyl ketone hydrochloride] to have an addition-forming and addition-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that sin the public interest this finding should be effective immediately.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this fourth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third.

Signature of Harry S. Truman

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

G. C. MARSHALL,

Secretary of State.

Harry S Truman, Proclamation 2807—Determining the Drug Keto-Bemidone to Be An Opiate Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/287266

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